Results for the United States auto industry’s sales for the month of September 2011 have been released. It would appear that during the month, the American public had mixed feelings towards vehicle size when looking at a specific segment. Sales of cars were skewed towards the small as midsize and compact cars took the majority of total sales. Things went in a different direction in the SUV segment as large SUVs outsold small ones by more than 10,000 units. America is still not afraid to buy big.
For September and for the umpteenth month in a row, the Ford F-Series pickup landed top selling overall vehicle. 54,410 trucks were sold, more than 10,000 when compared to the second best-selling Chevrolet Silverado and up 14.7 percent from last year. Despite it being significantly down from 2010, the Toyota Camry managed to land the number three sales spot with 24,851 units sold. Taking fourth place and up 46 percent form last year was Chrysler’s Ram pickup. The Chevrolet Cruze remains the nation’s best-selling small car for September with 18,097 vehicles sold.
In the manufacture’s race, the Big Three came out on top once again. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler placed one, two and three respectively with all three seeing an increase in sales when compared to 2010. Not too far behind was Toyota which sold 121,451 total cars and trucks, just around 6,000 less than Chrysler. Despite its fourth place finish, the company is still hurting compared to last year as sales dropped 17.5 percent from September 2010. Honda is in a similar boat as their 89,532 total vehicle sales were down 8 percent from last September. Nissan on the other hand jumped up highly with 92,654 total cars and trucks sold. That figure is up a massive 25.3 percent compared to 2010.
Saab’s constant drama have put the company is sketchy light and their sales reflected that. Down 61.9 percent from September 2010, the Swedish company only sold 429 vehicles in the U.S. Maserati managed to sell 199 cars, increasing sales by 46.3 percent. They also beat Ferrari who only sold 183 cars to American buyers. During September, 28 Rolls Royce cars were sold while 4 Maybachs were sold. Last September, only 3 were purchased. In total, 1,053,722 vehicles were sold in the United States during the 25 selling days of September. That figure is up 9.9 percent from last year.
Source: WSJ
